Nathan

thoughts for the ether

[Nathan @nathanenglert]

New short story I’ve been thinking about, sparked by the Anthropic/Fable drama:

The U.S. regulates the furnace. The lab carries the fire somewhere else.

https://t.co/xaWNsD1Jc0

[Nathan @nathanenglert]

Never thought the Million Dollar Homepage idea would make its way around again.

[@jackbutcher @jackbutcher]

$1 per letter.

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[Nathan @nathanenglert]

Adjusted for inflation, the Apollo program cost roughly $250B.

@elonmusk’s net worth is now high enough that he could fund three Apollo programs and still be the richest person on Earth. It’s a little hand wave-y, but the comparison is staggering.

[Nathan @nathanenglert]

1950: can machines think?
2012: deep learning works
2017: transformers scale
2020: GPT-3 makes prompting real
2022: ChatGPT makes it mainstream
2024+: multimodal + reasoning models
2025+: agents, tools, long context, verification loops

[Nathan @nathanenglert]

@timo_rf

[Nathan @nathanenglert]

@timsoret Respectfully, if we’re on the onset of AGI, shouldn’t the wealth divide be one of the main things we question?

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@jkorenman @rive_app Such a cool effect 👏

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@DesolateGarden @JohnOkure10871 I loved that game so much.

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